HP IO Accelerator Driver and Management Software Version 3.2.3 Release Notes

System requirements 9
IMPORTANT: With Hyper-V, only a 512 B sector size is supported on IO Accelerator devices.
For more information on sector sizes on Windows operating systems, see the Microsoft
Knowledge Base article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510009).
Supported VMware operating systems
• VMware ESX 4.0 Update 4, 4.1 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 4, 4.1 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 5.0
IO Accelerator devices are only compatible with operating systems that are 64-bit x86 architecture. This
requirement means the following scenarios are supported:
• Using the IO Accelerator device as a VMFS datastore within the hypervisor and then sharing that
storage with guest operating systems. Guest operating systems can be 32-bit or 64-bit because they are
not directly using the IO Accelerator device.
• Using VMDirectPathIO to allow a VM to directly use the IO Accelerator device. In this case, only
supported operating systems can use the device. VMDirectPathIO is currently supported on Windows
and Linux operating systems that are supported on HP IO Accelerator devices.
The VSL software is only required for ESX or ESXi if you plan to use the IO Accelerator device as a VMFS
datastore. If you are passing the devices through using VMDirectPathIO, you do not need to install the
VSL on your the ESX or ESXi system. Instead, install the VSL on the guest system. For example, pass the
device through to a Windows VM, and then install the Windows VSL on that VM.
For installation instructions, see the HP IO Accelerator for Linux User Guide or the HP IO Accelerator for
Windows User Guide.
Supported Solaris operating systems
• Solaris (x86, 64-bit) 10 Update 8, 10 Update 9, 10 Update 10
• Solaris (x86, 64-bit) 11
• OpenSolaris 2009.06 (x86, 64-bit)
Supported devices
This section lists the HP devices that are supported with this version of the IO Accelerator driver.
IO Accelerator Gen2 devices
• HP 365 GB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 785 GB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 1.2 TB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class
IMPORTANT: Generation 2 IO accelerators for BladeSystem c-Class are only compatible with
Gen8 and later server blades.
• HP 365 GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers